Heretoir Unveils New Album

Heretoir just issued this update about the arrival of a long-overdue new album coming in March of 2017:

"We couldn't be happier to finally reveal the cover art and tracklist of our second full-length album 'The Circle!' The 65-minute journey 'The Circle' deals with the cycle of life, death and rebirth. Weaving crushing heaviness and atmospheric dreaminess the album portrays an emotional journey – a life dedicated to the sun and to freedom.

"Once again the cover was created by the magnificent hands of french artist Fursy Teyssier (Les Discrets) and perfectly visualizes the concept and the atmosphere of the album. 'The Circle' furthermore features guest vocals by Alcest mastermind Neige. 'The Circle' will be released through Northern Silence Productions in March 2017. Information on all of the available formats will follow soon!"

1. Alpha
2. The White
3. Inhale
4. Golden Dust
5. My Dreams Are Lights In The Sky
6. XIX XXI XIV
7. Exhale
8. Eclipse
9. Laniakea Dances (Soleils Couchants) - feat. Neige of Alcest
10. Fading With The Grey
11. The Circle (Omega) More...

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Dark Tranquillity Nominated For Grammis

Dark Tranquillity may not have won our 2016 best metal album award, but the melodic death metal band is up for the Swedish Grammis Awards for new album "Atoma."

Frontman Mikael Stanne comments, “We are honored that in a year of amazing Swedish albums our own 'Atoma' has been nominated for the Swedish Grammis awards. We are indeed in good company among the nominees and we cannot wait for the awards ceremony and the inevitable party afterwards!”

Dark Tranquillity just recently announced a European tour with no less than Swedish heavy metal Vikings Amon Amarth and Finnish label mates Omnium Gatherum for 2017. More...

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Sunday Old School: The Gathering

The Netherlands has a long history of love for rock and metal music. The Eindhoven Open Air festival was once one of the main highlights of the calendar and the country also gave us one of the greatest driving anthems ever in the form of "Radar Love" by Golden Earring. They've also contributed to a wide range of metal, including death metal groups like Pestilence and God Dethroned, as well as symphonic metal outfit Within Temptation. Today we're taking a look at one of Holland's other cult names, The Gathering.

The Gathering were formed in North Brabant city of Oss in the south of the Netherlands in 1989 by Nijmegen born brothers Hans and René Rutten on drums and guitars respectively along with local vocalist Bart Smits, taking their name from the cult favourite movie, "Highlander." They soon completed their lineup with the additions of bassist Hugo Prinsen Geerligs, guitarist Jelmer Wiersma and Frank Boeijen on keyboards and started out performing doom metal, with some death metal influences, not unlike contemporaries such as Paradise Lost and Katatonia. This lineup recorded their first demo, "An Imaginary Symphony" in 1990 and followed it a year later with, "Moonlight Archer," which caught the attention of the metal underground and allowed them to open for such groups as Morbid Angel and Death, before being snapped up by Foundation 2000 Records. More...

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Inferitvm Premieres New Music Video "Aeons of War"

Spanish black metal outfit Inferitvm premieres a new music video for "Aeons of War", taken from the band's brand new EP "The War of the Witches", out in stores now via Bandcamp.

Check out now "Aeons of War" below.

We've included a full stream of the new EP for you below: More...

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Emmure Premieres "Russian Hotel Aftermath"

Emmure premieres a new song entitled "Russian Hotel Aftermath", taken from the upcoming new album "Look at Yourself", which will be out in stores in early 2017 via SharpTone Records.

Check out now "Russian Hotel Aftermath" below.

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